Why it's bad #1 and why it's bad #2. We use browser-specific text tags like <MARQUEE>. We use font faces that are not appropriate for our audience — like Comic Sans on a senior citizen site. OK, like Comic Sans. Our site has text in the status bar — moving Javascript text. ...
Off-the-shelf solutions work until someone insists their Excel macro from ’03 is legally binding. Now you’re building workflows so specific they’d confuse a blockchain engineer. Modular design and extension points (lookin’ at you, ServiceNow) let you customize without rewriting the universe. ...
There are a number of meanings of “cascading”, so let’s pick one: styles sometimesinherittheir value from parent styles. For example, definingfont-family: "Comic Sans MS"onbodywill cause most everything on your page to be cheerful and happy. Some people don’t like this, because it m...
The atmosphere is so cryptic and the behaviors so furtive in Bernardo Bertolucci's take on a Jorge Luis Borges short story that you find yourself as baffled as the hero investigating the 30-year-old slaying of his antifascist father. The star is a cipher, but Alida Valli supplies more than...
So Robin was cut from the movie and shoved back toBatman Returns— from which he was cut yet again and shoved back toBatman Forever. The Knox character was supposed to get killed inventing the Batsignal, which is one of the scenes I really miss. You may recall that there is a completel...
Many great ideas look awesome on paper and not so well in reality. Like the comic sans font, for instance. exxxviii macrumors 65816 May 20, 2015 1,423 557 Jul 23, 2015 #38 Lennyvalentin said: Your maths is entirely bogus. It relies on best-case numbers and from that you draw...
In this particular case, Nissan is a family name. Naturally, the owner wants to keep it, and he has a right to do so since he got there first. But from a business standpoint, the confusion generated by the domain name is likely doing him more harm than good. ...
Updating for the present may be an important part of your goals, but thinking about the future and the longevity of your rebranding efforts is important, too. When it was first released, Google’s redesign of its ubiquitous multicolored sans-serif logo was highly publicized and roundly criticiz...
Everything can be framed in the context of this one unit of surveillance- the “dick pic”- in a way that is utterly relatable for a modern TV audience. It is so intelligent and simultaneously absurd, it is maybe one of the greatest pieces of modern art I have yet seen. In the end...
high quality technical merits and features all the special features you could hope for (Surprisingly so with how much of a box office failure it was) sans Neil Marshall telling us like it is. If you’re one of those “Not as bad as they say” folks, this release is a terrific pick ...